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They Can’t Extol US Press Freedom while Seeking to Extradite and Prosecute Publisher Assange

May 4, 2023May 4, 2023 by Dave LIndorff

Today’s make or break for President Joe Biden and his wimpy attorney general Merrick Garland on the issue of a free press. The US Constitution, flawed as it is as a founding document, is unequivocal on the matter. Its much cited and touted First Amendment states; “Congress shall make no law…abridging freedom of speech …

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Novelist Rushdie Gravely Injured by Likely Non-Reading Zealot Seeking Salvation and Bounty

August 12, 2022August 14, 2022 by Dave LIndorff

As I’m writing this it has been five hours since the cowardly attack on author Salman Rushdie, 75, by what almost certainly is a Islamic zealot who, motivated by the fatwah issued against Rushdie in 1989 Muslim Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then leader of the theocratic Islamic state of Iran, stabbed him multiple times, including …

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